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[AmyStrange]

and Idaho have budget problems and Vermont doesn't. As a matter of fact Vermont has a surplus.

Oregon has no sales tax, but has an income tax.

And I dispute your insistence that Idaho has more millionaires. What are you using as your source? They are cutting social programs because of it. How does this help those in need?

By the way you never answered my original question.

Also, you are constantly complaining how the liberals got screwed in Vermont, but you fail to bring up these facts

FROM: http://www.sevendaysvt.com/insidetrack/
MIRROR WEBPAGE: http://www.seattleactivist.org/Dean/DEAN-JUL-16-2003-Exclusive--Howard-Dean-is-a-Woman.html
As former liberal Democratic State Sen. Dick McCormack tells it, it was Howard Dean who laid down the law to the liberals. And it was a lecture McCormack will never forget.

Then-Lt. Gov. Dean told the liberal Senate Dems, “You will never achieve your lofty goals of social and economic justice because people do not trust Democrats with their money.” And until they do, prophesied the future presidential contender, the well-intentioned liberals would be failures!

You see, Ho-Ho’s bottom line has always been the bottom line. For his first six years on the Fifth Floor, Dean annually battled the liberals nose-to-nose on the state budget and the income tax. The liberals wanted to spend like drunken sailors and tax the rich at a higher rate to get the cash.

Dean would have none of it. They called him names. Accused him of neglecting the aged, blind and disabled. They even called him a “Republican in sheep’s clothing.” Meanwhile, Ho-Ho drove the liberals positively mad by squirreling away tens of millions of dollars in rainy-day funds and paying down the state’s bonded indebtedness.



Dave (AmyStrange.com)